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That's spot on now. You will not have to touch your secondary unless you take it apart or drop the scope all you need to do is check the primary and tweak it.

Looking at that your primary needs tweaking to align the spot inside that little ring then you should be spot on.

Sent for a pair £26.80 delivered bargain just wait find measurement to the centre of each then van get a handle.

I am just looking now £21 plus delivery bargain Thank you so much I knew if I wrote on here someone would come up with something. Come up trumps again Thank you again.

I can get 140mm ones and pack them out that`s a brilliant idea thank you, better than foam as wont go flat I will have resistance.

Its only 3 mm and aluminium I would have to countersink from underneath. I dont want to chance that if it breaks at that point I am snookered. Trying to find rings that fit is near impossible.

They have got 136mm tube rings but again nowhere to attach a handle. https://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p1196_CR-136---Aluminium-Tube-Rings-for-OTA-with-136-mm-diameter.html

John Primaluce have a pair that will fit but I begrudge paying £200+ for them when the Scope is not worth that. Stainless Steel sounds good I will look into that thanks. Paul

I was going to put a handle on my tube rings to aid moving my 5" Achromatic refractor unfortunately I cannot. There is nowhere to attach them, to go down the DIY route I would have to drill a hole through the rings and being thin aluminium I am apprehensive about attaching one in case it snaps the whole thing. So I thought I will buy some Skywatcher ones should be easy enough well I thought wrong. My scope measures 132mm in diameter Skywatcher do 120mm and 140mm but nothing in between. Primaluce do a set of 134mm tube rings but they cost £226 more than the scope is worth. So I am open to any suggestions from anyone who can think of something.

A warm welcome to SGL. Dont be afraid to ask any questions there is always help on here, I think you will have a 6" scope so you are going to have a lot of fun with it one thing don't think you will see galaxies like you do in magazines and books you won't only see them in black and white and mostly just fuzzies. Unless you are in a dark site go for clusters plenty of them and different coloured stars.

Download Stellarium free astronomy software that will help a lot and get yourself a Planisphere that will show you what is in the sky on any date and time. You can get a pdf of Celestron alignment stars here https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/427603-list-of-alignment-stars-grouped-by-constellation/ Good luck Paul

John The focuser on mine was not smooth at all I took it apart it had two pieces of Teflon one down each side, when I did focus it the star or planet would jump around in the FOV it was terrible. I think I have been lucky with it in the respect of it having good collimation.

What did you think of the focuser in the Meade 127mm and I'm pretty sure mine is not collimateable saying that I have checked it and it's very near spot on.

Rob, I thought it was thanks once I have a new centre bolt ( being made for me) I will post a picture of it set up on the tripod and adapter only need some paint then to smarten everything up. Paul

Doug what's the focal length on that Bresser looks a lot like my Meade which is F9. 3

I got a Tal 100rs for my first refractor with a extension for my tripod this was easily held on my EQ5 Mount. I then saw a Meade LXD55 127 emc for sale £120 I thought a bargain and a good 5" Refractor. Sadly I was wrong first the front lens where not in correctly thanks to @Peter Drew who swapped them for me and did a star test. The focuser was terrible a very good friend gave me a Skywatcher dual speed focuser but then I needed a adapter. Over to moonraker telescopes I sent my old focuser the Skywatcher one and plenty of diagrams and measurements. The Skywatcher was a bit ropey Mark fixed that took it apart replaced nsome bearings now it's like new. He made a custom adapter and stuck the Skywatcher in it I think with araldite I cannot take it out put it that way, he said was the original focuser out of a lucky bag. £130 for the adaptor. Sent it back to me put it on the EQ5 but had to put a weight from the spreader plate so I needed a bigger mount. Then someone said get a EQ6 Tripod with a adapter my EQ5 will fit then, most of you will know how much trouble I have had with that. Briefly bought EQ6 tripod second hand turned out it wasn't no centre bolt I have had to use 10mm stud bar but that is being sorted at the moment. £50 for tripod £60 for the adaptor so a lot of money saved. Now with the 2" legs on the tripod and my EQ5 the 5" is solid I have had two nights of great viewing where every object was dead on. I have gone through a lot but I have a a cracking 5" now.

Don't buy a cheap laser usually always need collimating themselves, saying that if you do get one and get it as accurate as possible you can then use the Barlow method which with a long scope will make it much easier. Other than that get a Cheshire/Sight-tube cannot go wrong with them.

I bought one of these a bit of red tape and I have a red light right there nothing sticking out and a warm head. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unisex-LED-Beanie-Hat-Knitted-Cap-Battery-Operated-Head-Lamp-Light-White-/382716858290&ved=2ahUKEwi2gPzZxeXpAhWIX8AKHeFUBwEQFjAKegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3d7jbO9gOmUNdv8cG6TB8V

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-DC-Charger-Adapter-for-CELESTRON-Power-Tank-17-Station-18777-18774-Mains/183814321252?hash=item2acc2ff464:g:FAoAAOSwaRlewily This is it from what I have read but your going have wait a few weeks if you buy it.

The nights are very short now so deep sky objects are out, I went for a few doubles in Vulpecula and Lyra. Σ2735 (SAO 0883 77) Unequal yellow pair Σ2540 (SAO 0873 42) Bright white with a tiny companion on its edge Σ2523 SAO 0872 18) Twin white stars in the coathanger asterism which I could not see it was that light. Now Lyra Σ2333 (SAO 0670 59) Orange/Yellow pair Σ2362 (SAO 0671 98) Mustard with a off white companion. έ1 and έ2 (SAO 0673 10) the double double split with my 10mm Vixen plossl Σ2390 (SAO 0673 50) Yellow with a blue companion. 17 Lyrae (SAO 0678 35) Another Yellow and blue pairing Σ2470 and Σ2474 (SAO 0675 66) Another double double both pair are the same apart from the colours Σ2470 is pure white and Σ2474 which is Lemon. β Lyrae (SAO 0674 51) White pair here. That`s it tried the ring nebula could just make it out but skyglow was to bright.

Just said the same to @Stu I have never looked at the moon so closely but you make it sound a lot more interesting I must have a better look at it and get a reference map to know what I am looking at.

Great report Stu I have never looked at the moon so closely but you make it sound a lot more interesting.

Wish I had one of those scopes.

Wow brilliant news I read this morning see it at 10.15 pm for 3 minutes through virgo.